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Whomerley Wood Moat, Stevenage: The House in the Clearing by Philip Wadner 9780993198700
RRP: $7.73$7.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993198700Author Philip WadnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Cade BooksPublisher Cade Books -
Muslims Under Latin Rule, 1100-1300 by James M. Powell
RRP: $41.28$31.94Covering Portugal and Castile in the West to the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in the East, this collection focuses on Muslim minorities living in Christian lands during the high Middle Ages, and examines to what extent notions of religious tolerance... -
Rommel and the Secret War in North Africa: Secret Intelligence in the North African Campaign 1941-43 by Janusz Piekalkiewicz 9780887403408
RRP: $36.11$24.02In this new book, Janusz Piekalkiewicz chronicles the British Secret Inteligence Service (SIS) and the "Ultra" secret, and its effect on the campaign in North Africa during the Secon World War. On the German side, Rommel also knew the use of intercepted... -
Bristol: History You Can See by Maurice Fells
RRP: $16.76$12.41A history of Bristol.About the AuthorMaurice Fells is a born and bred Bristolian with a passionate interest in the city's history, and a prolific author of books about Bristol. He worked as a journalist in both the print and broadcast mediums, and held... -
Ordinary Workers, Vichy and the Holocaust: French Railwaymen and the Second World War by Ludivine Broch
RRP: $39.98$29.48Should French railwaymen during the Second World War be viewed as great resisters or collaborators in genocide? Ludivine Broch revisits histories of resistance, collaboration and deportation in Vichy France through the prism of the French railwaymen -... -
An Afterlife for the Khan: Muslims, Buddhists, and Sacred Kingship in Mongol Iran and Eurasia by Dr. Jonathan Z. Brack
RRP: $103.20$79.84In the Mongol Empire, the interfaith court provided a contested arena for a performance of the Mongol ruler's sacred kingship, and the debate was fiercely ideological and religious. At the court of the newly established Ilkhanate, Muslim administrators,... -
The York Corpus Christi Plays by Clifford Davidson
RRP: $34.19$28.99The feast of Corpus Christi, celebrated annually on Thursday after Trinity Sunday, was devoted to the Eucharist, and the normal practice was to have solemn processions through the city with the Host, the consecrated wafer that was believed to have been... -
Hell from the Heavens: The Epic Story of the USS Laffey and World War II's Greatest Kamikaze Attack by John Wukovits 9780306824548
$20.95On April 16, 1945, the crewmen of the USS Laffey heroically withstood twenty-two kamikaze attacks at Okinawa in what the US Navy called "one of the great sea epics of the war." Using scores of personal interviews with survivors, the memoirs of crew... -
The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971 by Nayanika Mookherjee
RRP: $30.95$26.88Following the 1971 Bangladesh War, the Bangladesh government publicly designated the thousands of women raped by the Pakistani military and their local collaborators as birangonas, ("brave women"). Nayanika Mookherjee demonstrates that while this... -
Silver: Transformational Matter by Helen Hills 9780197267547
$116.46Silver transformed and convulsed the early modern world. Silver, even more than gold, occupied a deeply charged intersection of forces and dynamics - philosophical, religious, material, telluric, economic, colonialist, social, cultural, and courtly -... -
Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A History by Fellow Orlando Figes
RRP: $30.95$18.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250062628Author Fellow Orlando FigesFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm... -
Darwin: Portrait of a Genius by Paul Johnson
RRP: $28.37$18.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780147509772Author Paul JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 135g -
Dangerous Work: The Memoir of Private George Weeks of the Labour Corps 1917-1919 by Alan Weeks
RRP: $14.18$10.64British military labour during the First World War developed from an ad hoc arrangement in 1914 into a corps some 400,000 strong, supported by as many as a million dominion and foreign workers by 1918. Records of this contribution to victory are... -
The Deeds of Philip Augustus: An English Translation of Rigord's "Gesta Philippi Augusti" by Rigord
RRP: $25.79$22.63The first full English translation of Rigord's Gesta Philippi Augusti, The Deeds of Philip Augustus makes available to Anglophone readers the most important narrative account of the reign of King Philip II of France (r. 1180-1223), a critical source... -
The Mirror Test by J. Kael Weston
RRP: $20.63$14.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345806949Author J. Kael WestonFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
Religion of the People: Methodism and Popular Religion 1750-1900 by David Hempton 9780415077149
RRP: $174.15$151.81Taking account of broader patterns of growth, the focus of this book is Methodism in the British Isles. Hempton discusses why Methodism, the most important religious movement in the English-speaking world in the 18th and 19th centuries, grew when and... -
Possible Histories: Arab Americans and the Queer Ecology of Peddling by Charlotte Karem Albrecht 9780520391727
RRP: $38.70$30.04A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Many of the hundreds of thousands of Syrians who immigrated to the US beginning in... -
Midnight Train to Siberia: A Polish family's courage in surviving the wartime hell created by Stalin by Teri Hartley
RRP: $15.48$11.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909544765Author Teri HartleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Memoirs PublishingPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 425g -
Modernism without Jews?: German-Jewish Subjects and Histories by Scott Spector
RRP: $25.79$22.63Nowhere else have Jews contributed so massively and consequentially to the general culture than in Germany. From Mendelssohn to Marx, from Freud to Einstein, Jewish contributions to secular German thought have been both wide-ranging in scope and profound... -
Raiders: World War Two True Stories by Ross Kemp 9780099574774
$20.63To the people of Great BritainWorld War II was the deadliest and bloodiest war in history. Never before or since have so many people made such a personal sacrifice in the line of duty.Raiders tells the extraordinary true stories of six of the most daring...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$20.63Subtotal: -
Unmaking Detente: Yugoslavia, the United States, and the Global Cold War, 1968-1980 by Milorad Lazic 9781793649218
RRP: $104.49$92.18This book examines the global history of the Cold War in the 1970s through the perspective of Yugoslavia's activism in the Global South and its relations with the superpowers. The author shows that Yugoslavia's anxiety over a "new Yalta" required a... -
Oak Island Odyssey: A Masonic Quest by Scott Clarke 9781774711569
RRP: $25.74$16.95A compelling case for the connection between Freemasonry and the notorious Oak Island treasure, written by a historian and Curse of Oak Island guest expert.If you think you know everything about the secrets of Oak Island, think again.Oak Island: A... -
An Object of Seduction: Chinese Silk in the Early Modern Trans-Pacific Trade, 1500-1950 by Xiaolin Duan 9781793614902
RRP: $104.49$91.67In 1573, 712 bales of Chinese silk arrived in New Spain in the cargos of two Manila galleons. The emergence and the subsequent rapid development of this trans-Pacific silk trade reflected the final formation of the global circulation network. The first... -
The Young Hitler I Knew: The Memoirs of Hitler's Childhood Friend by August Kubizek 9781784389772
RRP: $19.34$14.13August Kubizek met Adolf Hitler in 1904 while they were both competing for standing room at the opera. Their mutual passion for music created a strong bond, and over the next four years they became close friends. Kubizek describes a reticent young man,... -
Corpus of Early Accounts of the Sunjata Epic, 1889-1959 by Stephen Bulman
RRP: $109.65$109.60The Sunjata epic is a foundational oral narrative for Manding populations of West Africa and claims to describe the origins of the famed medieval empire of Mali. It is both a historical source and an artistic creation of West African oral specialists,... -
Flinders: The Man Who Mapped Australia by Rob Mundle
RRP: $19.34$11.51The fascinating story of the exceptional maritime explorer, Matthew Flinders - the man who put Australia on the map.Shipwrecks, storms, death and danger - Matthew Flinders encountered it all on his courageous quest to circumnavigate and chart the...Qty in Cart: 0Price:RRP: $19.34$11.51Subtotal: -
Edexcel International GCSE History Student Book second edition by Jane Shuter
$46.59This second edition is for the latest specification of the International GCSE and the Certificate in History. * Written by highly experienced History teachers. * Clear, engaging style that students will find easy to understand. * Includes learning...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$46.59Subtotal: -
Faith and the Fury: Popular Anticlerical Violence & Iconoclasm in Spain, 1931-1936 by Maria Thomas
$131.08The five-year period following the proclamation of the Republic in April 1931 was marked by physical assaults upon the property and public ritual of the Spanish Catholic Church. These attacks were generally carried out by rural and urban anticlerical... -
From a Persian Kitchen: Authentic recipes and fabulous flavours from Iran by Atoosa Sepehr
RRP: $33.54$21.17An Irish Times Best Food Book of the Year. 'A dream of a cookery book. Sumptuous, tempting with quite beautiful photography.'Irish Examiner'The book is so beautiful, full of [your] own photographs, that look like gorgeous still life paintings.' Suzy...Qty in Cart: 0Price:RRP: $33.54$21.17Subtotal: -
Target: Italy: The Secret War Against Mussolini 1940-1943 by Roderick Bailey
RRP: $16.76$11.04The cloak-and-dagger war fought by British secret agents against Mussolini's Italy has been little known - until now. Target: Italy is the official history of the efforts of Britain's Special Operations Executive to strike at Fascist Italy in the... -
The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918: With a New Preface by Stephen Kern
RRP: $41.22$32.99Stephen Kern writes about the sweeping changes in technology and culture between 1880 and World War I that created new modes of understanding and experiencing time and space. To mark the book's twentieth anniversary, Kern provides an illuminating new... -
Struggle and Suffrage in Morpeth & Northumberland: Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality Craig Armstrong 9781526719652
RRP: $16.76$11.73For much of the nineteenth century, the women of Northumberland had occupied crucial, though largely underappreciated and acknowledged, roles within society. Aside from the hard life of raising families in an area where money was often hard to come by,... -
Prostitutes and Matrons in the Roman World by Anise K. Strong
RRP: $28.37$25.54Prostitutes and Matrons in the Roman World is the first substantial account of elite Roman concubines and courtesans. Exploring the blurred line between proper matron and wicked prostitute, it illuminates the lives of sexually promiscuous women like... -
France 1940: Defending the Republic by Philip G. Nord
RRP: $25.79$21.89A new perspective on the calamitous fall of France in 1940 and why blame has been misplaced ever since In this revisionist account of France's crushing defeat in 1940, a world authority on French history argues that the nation's downfall has long been... -
Castles, Battles, and Bombs: How Economics Explains Military History by Jurgen Brauer
RRP: $56.76$55.04"Castles, Battles, and Bombs" reconsiders key episodes of military history from the point of view of economics - with dramatically insightful results. For example, when looked at as a question of sheer cost, the building of castles in the High Middle... -
The Unknown Black Book: The Holocaust in the German-Occupied Soviet Territories by Joshua Rubenstein
RRP: $36.11$31.66The Unknown Black Book provides a revelatory compilation of testimonies from Jews who survived open-air massacres and other atrocities carried out by the Germans and their allies in the occupied Soviet territories during World War II-Ukraine, Belorussia,... -
Deposition, 1940-1944: A Secret Diary of Life in Vichy France by Leon Werth
RRP: $46.43$34.44Historians agree: the diary of Leon Werth (1878-1955) is one of the most precious--and readable--pieces of testimony ever written about life in France under Nazi occupation and the Vichy regime. Werth was a free-spirited, unclassifiable writer, the... -
Aberdeen's Union Terrace Gardens: War and Peace in the Denburn Valley by Diane Morgan
RRP: $19.34$15.42The complete, dramatic story of Union Terrace Gardens has never before been told in one volume. Now, in her eleventh book on Aberdeen, Diane Morgan presents the complete history of these iconic gardens on the west side of the Denburn Valley. From the... -
Fashion in the Age of the Black Prince - A Study of the Years 1340-1365 by Stella Mary Newton
RRP: $25.79$21.89A close study of clothes worn by aristocratic families and their households at the time of the Black Prince - and of Chaucer - showing Europe-wide influences. 1340 to 1363 were years remarkable for dramatic developments in fashion and for extravagant... -
Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother by Peggy O'Donnell Heffington
RRP: $32.25$22.08A historian of gender explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood In an era of falling births, it's often said that millennials invented the idea of not having kids. But history is full of women without children: some who chose...